If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter.

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

To dream alone is fantasy if it doesn't move the heart to act.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.

[Biblical counseling] Must insist that the image of God is central to developing a solid view of personality; that our sinfulness, not how we've been sinned against, is our biggest problem; that forgiveness, not wholeness, is our greatest need; that repentance, not insight, is the dynamic in all real change.